POWERCOLOR RADEON 9700 PRO REVIEW

GENERAL SYSTEM INFORMATION

COMMENT - "Powercolor Radeon 9700 Pro puts in a solid performance beating the Sapphire Radeon 9600 XT by between 10% to 20%."

COMMENT - "Unreal Tournament 2004 is one of the older games we still use for benchmarking and the Powercolor Radeon 9700 Pro outperforms the Leadtek GeForce 6600 by between 6% to 9% for a close result."

COMMENT - "The Leadtek GeForce 6600 starts off strongly beating the Powercolor Radeon 9700 Pro by 3% when using low quality settings. However the good Leadtek GeForce 6600 result shown with the low quality test just falls away leaving the Powercolor Radeon 9700 Pro to beat the Sapphire Radeon 9600 XT by between 16% to 18%."

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FINAL COMMENT - "The Powercolor Radeon 9700 Pro is the oldest of the four video cards tested but it's performance is still very good. Although the Powercolor Radeon 9700 Pro lacks SM3.0 which limited it's performance with 3dmark 2006 it's SM2.0 performance is excellent which helped it deliver such great game performance. There was even a few times when the Powercolor Radeon 9700 Pro actually delivered playable performance even using high quality settings which we designed for expensive video cards which is impressive!"

COMMENT - "When using synthetic benchmarks the Powercolor Radeon 9700 Pro is 9% faster than the Leadtek GeForce 6600, 13% faster than the Sapphire Radeon 9600 XT and 21% faster than the Gigabyte GeForce PCX 5900. When using games benchmarks the Powercolor Radeon 9700 Pro is 17% faster than the Leadtek GeForce 6600, 18% faster than the Sapphire Radeon 9600 XT and 30% faster than the Gigabyte GeForce PCX 5900. It appears that the Sapphire Radeon 9600 XT is more than a match for the Leadtek GeForce 6600 when using games software. The Gigabyte GeForce PCX 5900 delivered poor game performance."